{"product_id":"middlemarch-and-the-imperfect-life-bookmarked-9781632461315","title":"Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life: Bookmarked","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Southern Booksellers Association Recommendation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In this trenchant memoir of reading and writing, Pamela Erens returns over a lifetime to George Eliot's \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e. The calm, understanding, and generosity that she finds in Eliot's masterpiece--albeit differently, at different moments in her own life--inflects Erens's own account of becoming, and being, a mother and a writer. This short book is filled with wisdom.\"--\u003cb\u003eClaire Messud\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eKant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write and The Woman Upstairs\u003c\/i\u003e\"Erens makes an engaging and convincing case for the value of reading \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch \u003c\/i\u003etoday, when we are still struggling to answer the questions it raises--about marriage, about community, about society, and especially about how to balance our individual needs and desires against the claims of sympathy and conscience.\"--\u003cb\u003eRohan Maitzen\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eWidening the Skirts of Light: Essays on George Eliot and Middlemarch for Book Clubs\u003c\/i\u003e\"Thoughtful, frank, and always artful, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch and the Imperfect Life\u003c\/i\u003e is an involving and deeply satisfying account of the reading and writing life.\"--\u003cb\u003eRebecca Mead\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eMy Life in Middlemarch \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHome\/Land\u003c\/i\u003eA masterly evocation of life in a provincial English community, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch \u003c\/i\u003eis considered perhaps the greatest novel of the Victorian era, praised by writers from Emily Dickinson to Virginia Woolf. In the latest volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, critically lauded author Pamela Erens talks about how \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch \u003c\/i\u003e\"rescued\" her, first as a distressed college student, and then during the tragic events of the global pandemic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePAMELA ERENS\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMatasha\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel for readers age 10 to 14, and the adult novels \u003ci\u003eThe Virgins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleven Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Understory. \u003c\/i\u003eErens's books have been named finalists for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for First Fiction, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Slate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ig Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50482763727122,"sku":"9781632461315","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_634019fd-85bb-4af2-bb77-690ea4126bb6.jpg?v=1730350516","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/middlemarch-and-the-imperfect-life-bookmarked-9781632461315","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}